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Judge Kennelly rules that Sheriff Dart must implement policies ensuring sanitation, testing, social distancing at intake and the distribution of personal protective equipment. A federal judge in [...]

Flo spent 52 in cook County Jail in 2016 because he couldn’t afford to pay his bond. He recorded this message, steeped in his personal experience, speaking to the urgent need to release [...]

We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jeffery Pendleton, the first person to die from COVID-19 while in the custody of Cook County Jail. He was 59 years old and incarcerated because he [...]

Read the complaint and declarations from medical experts and people currently incarcerated in Cook County Jail. A press conference will be aired on CCBF’s Facebook page today at 11am. Late [...]

CCBF first raised the alarm about the threat COVID-19 posed to people incarcerated in Cook County Jail on March 6th. The following week, on March 13th, we were joined by more than 25 advocacy, [...]

On Thursday, April 2, 2020, CCBF received this voice recording of a call with a person currently incarcerated in Cook County Jail. We were asked to share this with the world anonymously so that [...]

In just one week, the number of people at Cook County Jail who have tested positive for COVID-19 has gone from two to 101, with more than 90 people awaiting test results. At the current rate of [...]

Statement from Chicago Community Bond Fund and Chicago Appleseed For the last two weeks, over 100 advocacy, community, legal organizations, and unions have called on Cook County to release people [...]

Over 10 days ago, Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF) and nearly 100 advocacy, community, and legal organizations and unions began calling for the mass release of people from Cook County Jail to [...]

For over a week, we have been clear: COVID-19 would inevitably enter Cook County Jail and put thousands of lives at risk. Yesterday we learned that a guard who had been working in the Cermak [...]